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Near−Term Rally Of Dollar A Possibility As Fed's Plosser Voices Out Rate Hike Urgency

Wed, Jul 23 2008, 07:21 GMT
by Grace Cheng

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On Tuesday, the forex and stock markets were shaken not by corporate earnings results and not by any economic releases, but by a hawkish speech from Fed’s Plosser. The Philadelphia Fed President said there should be interest rate hikes “sooner rather than later” even if employment and financial conditions haven’t improved. This renewed signal to raise rates helped push the US dollar sharply against the Euro, Swiss franc, British pound, Japanese yen, Aussie and Kiwi, and could set the dollar on a near-term rally.

How quickly things change in the financial world; one minute, bets for a near-term rate hike are off the table, and the next, everyone’s anxious to place their bets for one again. It also reminds me of how drastically people change sides: one moment the government denies the implicit guarantee given to Freddie and Fannie, then suddenly they are clearly in trouble and Uncle Sam is there to save the day.

Anyway, back to Plosser’s comments, I think it is a good thing Plosser has the sense to highlight inflation risks and the foresight to consider voting for a rate hike soon, and not be sidetracked by how bad sharebuyers are doing. Inflation is a bigger evil than a downturn.

EUR/USD fell to the lowest since July 11, touching an intraday low of 1.5760. With Euro struggling to make more new highs in spite of largely disappointing earnings from US companies, we could expect Euro bulls to get out of the market. Next bear targets for EUR/USD are around 1.5720, 1.5690, 1.5660.

USD/CHF finally broke above 1.0250 to a session high of 1.0335, with 1.0350, 1.0390 the next topside objectives.


Stock Markets Charmed By Oil Decline

With the dollar up, crude oil prices in turn headed downward, dropping more than $3 to below $130 per barrel. At the same time, concerns about Tropical Storm Dolly subsided, aiding the slide of oil. US stocks initially went lower on Wachovia’s (WB: 16.79 +3.61 +27.39%) poor earnings results, but later went up as oil fell during the session.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed up more than 130 points. Even Wachovia shares later rose 27% to $16.79 - not bad for a bank that posted a $8.9 billion loss for the second quarter. Washington Mutual (WM: 5.82 +0.34 +6.20%), US’s largest savings and loan company, which released its earnings after the market close, announced a loss of $3.33 billion. CBOE’s VIX index (VIX-X.W: 23.05 0.00 0.00%) fell 8.1% to 21.18, the lowest level since June 25. It had initially gained as much as 4.5% at the beginning of trading.

How stock markets will react on Wednesday is anyone’s guess. But as for the forex markets, the US dollar seems to have the upper hand for now.


Economic Calendar For Wednesday:

  • Australia CPI 0130 GMT
  • Bank of England minutes 0830 GMT
  • Canada CPI 1100 GMT
  • Fed’s Beige Book 1800 GMT
  • Reserve Bank Of New Zealand rate decision 2100 GMT (rate expected to stay at 8.25%)


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